世

よ · yo · JLPT N3 · noun

universe

世 — universe

🌍 Three 十 (ten) joined: 30 years = one generation; yo, world!

世 started as three tens (十) joined together, which makes thirty years, about one human generation. From generation the meaning grew to the age you live in, then society and the world. As よ it appears in この世, this world.

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